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Am 14.08.2012 19:42, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: |
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> Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 13:21:35 schrieb Jason Weisberger: |
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>> Sure, but wouldn't compression make write operations slower? And isn't he |
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>> looking for performance? |
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> not really. As long as the CPU can compress faster than the disk can write |
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> stuff. |
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> More interessting: is btrfs trying to be smart - only compressing compressible |
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> stuff? |
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It does do that, but letting btrfs check if the files are already |
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compressed, if you know, that they are compressed, is a waste of cpu |
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cycles :) |
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